Royal operations

Based on a lecture given at the Medical School in Malta on the 31st July 1974. What must it be like to be called upon to treat a Royal patient? How should the Royal patient be treated? Naturally success brings with it international fame and in Great Britain, an undisclosed sum of money paid from the Privy Purse. Failure, however, must be disastrous, although not as dreadful nowadays as in the time of Blind King John of Bohemia, who in the Middle Ages, had his surgeons drowned in the River Danube when they failed to restore his sight. A few of the surgical histories of Kings and Queens of the past are described, whereby with the often detailed documents a wealth of information about medical and social customs of former times is delivered.peer-reviewe

Surgery and advanced abdominal malignancy

Medical practitioners face the problem of patients` abdominal malignancy, a problem which is divided into two major parts, in the first, we have those patients who present with fresh clinical problems which at first appear to be hopelessly advanced abdominal cancer. In the second group are patients who have already undergone what was hoped to have been curative resection of an abdominal cancer, but who now return with clinical features which suggest recurrence of the disease. The importance of laparotomy as crucial part of the treatment to abdominal malignancy is highlighted. Furthermore, it is advisable that a list of criteria needs to be taken into consideration before proceeding to radiotherapy or chemotherapy.peer-reviewe

The Relation of Rorschach Personality Traits To Teaching Success

The general problem of this experiment was to investigate the relation of ratings of Rorschach Personality Traits to teaching success

Developmental changes in the germinability, desiccation tolerance, hardseededness, and longevity of individual seeds of Trifolium ambiguum

Background and Aims: Using two parental clones of outcrossing Trifolium ambiguum as a potential model system, we examined how during seed development the maternal parent, number of seeds per pod, seed position within the pod, and pod position within the inflorescence influenced individual seed fresh weight, dry weight, water content, germinability, desiccation tolerance, hardseededness, and subsequent longevity of individual seeds. Methods: Near simultaneous, manual reciprocal crosses were carried out between clonal lines for two experiments. Infructescences were harvested at intervals during seed development. Each individual seed was weighed and then used to determine dry weight or one of the physiological behaviour traits. Key Results: Whilst population mass maturity was reached at 33–36 days after pollination (DAP), seed-to-seed variation in maximum seed dry weight, when it was achieved, and when maturation drying commenced, was considerable. Individual seeds acquired germinability between 14 and 44 DAP, desiccation tolerance between 30 and 40 DAP, and the capability to become hardseeded between 30 and 47 DAP. The time for viability to fall to 50 % (p50) at 60 % relative humidity and 45 °C increased between 36 and 56 DAP, when the seed coats of most individuals had become dark orange, but declined thereafter. Individual seed f. wt at harvest did not correlate with air-dry storage survival period. Analysing survival data for cohorts of seeds reduced the standard deviation of the normal distribution of seed deaths in time, but no sub-population showed complete uniformity of survival period. Conclusions: Variation in individual seed behaviours within a developing population is inherent and inevitable. In this outbreeder, there is significant variation in seed longevity which appears dependent on embryo genotype with little effect of maternal genotype or architectural factors

Soil magnesium and the growth and chemical composition of plants

A report on Department of Soils Research Project No. 207, 'Soil fertility'--P. [2].Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (page [20])

The Ursinus Weekly, October 5, 1906

Football • Dr. Shaw entertains • A great success • Groups • Society notes • Personals • Alumni notes • Code of rules • Musical organization • Significance of political enthusiasmhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2915/thumbnail.jp

Who wants to be a surgeon? A study of 300 first year medical students

BACKGROUND: While medicine in general is becoming more female-dominated, women are still under-represented in surgery. Opinion is divided as to whether this is due to lifestyle considerations, disinterest or perceived discrimination. It is not clear at what stage these careers decisions are made. METHODS: 300 first year medical students at Guy's King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine (GKT) were asked their view on possible career choices at this stage. RESULTS: While men represented only 38% of the student population, they represented over two-thirds of the students wishing to pursue a career in surgery. Women still opt for general practice and paediatrics. CONCLUSION: Surgery is a disproportionately unpopular career choice of the female first-year medical students of GKT compared to the male students. It appears that the choice is freely made and, at this stage at least, does not represent concerns about compatibility with lifestyle